Saturday, May 20, 2006
Report: ABC to Showcase Canceled Show
When a program on television is canceled, usually because its ratings suck, it is taken off the air, and its unaired episodes are just put into the can and never aired.
Not so for the leftwing drama/crap, "Commander-in-Chief," starring oddball Geena Davis as the first woman President. The show's ratings dived within the first few episodes, and the program was canceled by ABC.
But, alas alack! The liberal ABC cannot just let a show about a female President die, can it? Of course not!
ABC says that it will produce a 2 hour telefilm for the show!
Wait a second...a film? For a show which has been canceled?
You heard right - only for the left.
ABC May Revive Cancelled 'Chief' in Telefilm
We are waiting for NBC to comment on whether a 2 hour "Manimal" telefilm will be aired sometime in the near future.
When a program on television is canceled, usually because its ratings suck, it is taken off the air, and its unaired episodes are just put into the can and never aired.
Not so for the leftwing drama/crap, "Commander-in-Chief," starring oddball Geena Davis as the first woman President. The show's ratings dived within the first few episodes, and the program was canceled by ABC.
But, alas alack! The liberal ABC cannot just let a show about a female President die, can it? Of course not!
ABC says that it will produce a 2 hour telefilm for the show!
Wait a second...a film? For a show which has been canceled?
You heard right - only for the left.
ABC May Revive Cancelled 'Chief' in Telefilm
NEW YORK -- "Commander in Chief" wasn't picked up for next season but ABC may give it a brief revival in the form of a two-hour movie.
The one-hour drama about the nation's first female president (Geena Davis) didn't catch on in the ratings, having been pulled off Tuesdays earlier in the season and failing to get traction Thursdays at 10 p.m. It was yanked off the schedule weeks ago and wasn't on the ABC 2006-07 primetime schedule announced early Tuesday.
But ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson said at a meeting with reporters that "Commander in Chief" wasn't completely retired yet. McPherson said he had been pitched an idea for a two-hour movie by creator and former executive producer Rod Lurie, and was considering it.
Lurie would write and direct it. It isn't clear how many of the cast members would return.
"We're still debating it (whether to go ahead) and will decide over the summer," McPherson said.
We are waiting for NBC to comment on whether a 2 hour "Manimal" telefilm will be aired sometime in the near future.
